Lately reader of my blog asked about some detail, and then in next comment said that he doesn't have PostgreSQL 12 (which is currently developed version of Pg) available.
Well, I answered the original question, but I figured that if someone is reading my Waiting for … series, then it would make sense that such person could play with devel Pg herself.
So, here is how to get it done.
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Today, Mattias|farm on IRC asked how to create primary key using HASH index. After some talk, he said that in some books it said that for “=" (equality) hash indexes are better.
So, I digged a bit deeper.
I have a mixed love/hate relationship with tests.
I hate writing them. I hate remembering to add them when I'm in the zone, and application code is flowing freely from the tips of my fingers.
But when I do add them, I absolutely love the ability to twist and replace the most core innards of application, and be able to tell that at least the sanity check of the code passes.
I love them even more when they prevent me for repeating some mistake/bug – i.e. when there is a bug, and I have tests (which clearly failed, as they didn't catch the bug), I add test for this specific bug, so I know that in future it will not happen again.
For a long time I've been fan of stored procedures (or functions) – of course not for everything, but where it makes sense.